kfc wroteOn Thursday, I emailed thepeople@ogero.gov.lb to request a speed test for my DSL line and I got positively surprised by two things:

- First, they replied very fast within 24 hours!
- Second, they told me that I am 800 metres far from the central (knowing that i live at least 4km away from it) and that therefore my line can handle a speed up to 23 mbps!

Does this actually mean that an active cabinet was installed in my neighborhood? In this case, shouldn't the speed reach at least 50mbps as Ogero chairman said before?
What is your line attenuation value ?
Mylo89 wrote
kfc wroteOn Thursday, I emailed thepeople@ogero.gov.lb to request a speed test for my DSL line and I got positively surprised by two things:

- First, they replied very fast within 24 hours!
- Second, they told me that I am 800 metres far from the central (knowing that i live at least 4km away from it) and that therefore my line can handle a speed up to 23 mbps!

Does this actually mean that an active cabinet was installed in my neighborhood? In this case, shouldn't the speed reach at least 50mbps as Ogero chairman said before?
What is your line attenuation value ?
14

knowing that i live far from the centrale
kfc wrote
Mylo89 wrote
kfc wroteOn Thursday, I emailed thepeople@ogero.gov.lb to request a speed test for my DSL line and I got positively surprised by two things:

- First, they replied very fast within 24 hours!
- Second, they told me that I am 800 metres far from the central (knowing that i live at least 4km away from it) and that therefore my line can handle a speed up to 23 mbps!

Does this actually mean that an active cabinet was installed in my neighborhood? In this case, shouldn't the speed reach at least 50mbps as Ogero chairman said before?
What is your line attenuation value ?
14

knowing that i live far from the centrale
Nice! 14 is around 1 KM , well maybe you have an excellent copper cable. Can you sell me ?! ;p Possibly there is be an active cabinet around, because based on my knowledge some areas already have, example: Sharhabil and Batroun
Mylo89 wrote
kfc wrote
Mylo89 wrote
What is your line attenuation value ?
14

knowing that i live far from the centrale
Nice! 14 is around 1 KM , well maybe you have an excellent copper cable. Can you sell me ?! ;p Possibly there is be an active cabinet around, because based on my knowledge some areas already have, example: Sharhabil and Batroun
9 months ago, my attenuation was 52! So something drastic has changed.

But if active cabinet was installed, why is my speed limited to 23 mbps? isn't it supposed to be at least 50 mbps as Ogero chairman stated multiple times?
kfc wrote
Mylo89 wrote
kfc wrote
14

knowing that i live far from the centrale
Nice! 14 is around 1 KM , well maybe you have an excellent copper cable. Can you sell me ?! ;p Possibly there is be an active cabinet around, because based on my knowledge some areas already have, example: Sharhabil and Batroun
9 months ago, my attenuation was 52! So something drastic has changed.

But if active cabinet was installed, why is my speed limited to 23 mbps? isn't it supposed to be at least 50 mbps as Ogero chairman stated multiple times?
Wow man! When they start with VDSL service, you will be able to get a speed up to 40 mbps. You have to buy a vdsl modem then to get that speed
kfc wroteOn Thursday, I emailed thepeople@ogero.gov.lb to request a speed test for my DSL line and I got positively surprised by two things:

- First, they replied very fast within 24 hours!
- Second, they told me that I am 800 metres far from the central (knowing that i live at least 4km away from it) and that therefore my line can handle a speed up to 23 mbps!

Does this actually mean that an active cabinet was installed in my neighborhood? In this case, shouldn't the speed reach at least 50mbps as Ogero chairman said before?
Cool and congrats---I am going to email them at the end of the month when the cabinet is supposed to finish installing. A quick question though--did you ask them in Arabic or English or do you think it matters? If it is in Arabic, I am going to have to get another family member to do it.
xazbrat wrote
kfc wroteOn Thursday, I emailed thepeople@ogero.gov.lb to request a speed test for my DSL line and I got positively surprised by two things:

- First, they replied very fast within 24 hours!
- Second, they told me that I am 800 metres far from the central (knowing that i live at least 4km away from it) and that therefore my line can handle a speed up to 23 mbps!

Does this actually mean that an active cabinet was installed in my neighborhood? In this case, shouldn't the speed reach at least 50mbps as Ogero chairman said before?
Cool and congrats---I am going to email them at the end of the month when the cabinet is supposed to finish installing. A quick question though--did you ask them in Arabic or English or do you think it matters? If it is in Arabic, I am going to have to get another family member to do it.
no in english. and they replied in english.

I just explained to them the changes that occured to the stats of my DSL line in the past months and asked for a new speed test.
kfc wrote
xazbrat wrote
kfc wroteOn Thursday, I emailed thepeople@ogero.gov.lb to request a speed test for my DSL line and I got positively surprised by two things:

- First, they replied very fast within 24 hours!
- Second, they told me that I am 800 metres far from the central (knowing that i live at least 4km away from it) and that therefore my line can handle a speed up to 23 mbps!

Does this actually mean that an active cabinet was installed in my neighborhood? In this case, shouldn't the speed reach at least 50mbps as Ogero chairman said before?
Cool and congrats---I am going to email them at the end of the month when the cabinet is supposed to finish installing. A quick question though--did you ask them in Arabic or English or do you think it matters? If it is in Arabic, I am going to have to get another family member to do it.
no in english. and they replied in english.

I just explained to them the changes that occured to the stats of my DSL line in the past months and asked for a new speed test.
the 50 mb/s speed is a theoretical number that the network can handle.
right now we are limited by the technology ADSL2+ and my friend this is way out dated max speed attainable is 24 mb/s so if you can handle 23 consider yourself to be one of the luckiest.
think of it that way you have 8 mb/s connection now but your wireless technology is limited to a 2mb/s because it is an old router. basically the same analogy .
so until we move on ,to what i assume is the next step is , to VDSL we are limited by the 24mb/s speed.
that's why adsl2+ world wide has no speed limit its is already one of the slowest internet they have it wont sell if they limit it more.
nuclearcat wrotei doubt it will pass like that, why GDS(pocket DSP of IDM)? Why not other DSP? Why not one of 100s ISPs with whom GDS competing?
With pricing scale that was made up for IDM as well, all this stories smell VERY VERY fishy.
If it will pass as is - it means it is a graveyard for Lebanese telecom. As was mentioned before, when there is monopoly of private company, it means MUCH worse than state monopoly.
State telecom, Ogero, still interested in customers satisfaction, but private company without competition will do it's best to cash their monopoly and milk citizens to latest penny they can pay.
i don't think it is exclusive for GDS from what i researched so far any dsp with the paper GDS got in the year 2000 can profit from that the only downside is for ogero the Private DSP/ISP will be faster to install their fiber optics network and that will out compete ogero and ogero might lose a lot of clients ( big clients not home users).
to why GDS is on the news?! i assume it is because they are the first to take advantage of it, but i am sure more and more dsps will follow.
Ahmad Toutounji wrote good news I guess
Thanks for sharing! If the Prime Minister is saying next week, then it's probably next week.
Xsever wrote
Ahmad Toutounji wrote good news I guess
Thanks for sharing! If the Prime Minister is saying next week, then it's probably next week.
He actually said this week or next week, but still good to hear from the PM himself. Hopefully that means plans and speeds roll out next month
Hello Guys, just got upgraded today to the 2 Mbit speed. I live in Doha Aramoun, My line can handle now 20 mbit download. I'm subscribed to 8Mbit speed. I dont't know why they gave me the 2Mbit instead of 8. I Contacted Mr,Imad Kreidieh on twitter. He told me that i should change my plan. I told him that i'm already subscribed to the 8Mbit. What about you xazbrat?
Moudimadi wroteHello Guys, just got upgraded today to the 2 Mbit speed. I live in Doha Aramoun, My line can handle now 20 mbit download. I'm subscribed to 8Mbit speed. I dont't know why they gave me the 2Mbit instead of 8. I Contacted Mr,Imad Kreidieh on twitter. He told me that i should change my plan. I told him that i'm already subscribed to the 8Mbit. What about you xazbrat?
Congratz--Unfortunately, I haven't been upgraded yet. Hopefully they are doing this in stages and my turn will come up soon. The article did say it would take 10 days for the cabinet fully up and running and they only started working on it yesterday. I am on the 2 mb (recieving 1 mb) unlimited plan so maybe that might be another issue.
Does vdsl technology help gamers by lowering the ping? Or is it only speed related?
higher speed , ping wont decrease into we are full fiber as far as i know , can be wrong though
depends on your profile, long as you stay on a DLM-1 profile, you will have a 1ms ping each way.

profiles are tiered...

DLM-1 1ms 0INP

DLM-2 8ms 0INP
DLM-4 8ms 1INP *9
DLM-6 8ms 2INP

DLM-3 16ms 0INP
DLM-5 16ms 1INP
DLM-7 16ms 2INP
DLM-8 16ms 4INP

....
I think ping is increasing with VDSL by 10-20 ms average, my friend connected with VDSL2(TELECOM) now, and his ping higher by 8 ms on DLM-1 profile compare to ADSL2+ without interleaving. 8 ms is not big deal, but if you on other DLMs then you will get increase from 8 to 32 i think.
nuclearcat , with fulll fiber connection , wont we get ping decrease i think arround 10-15ms , no ?
Depends on QoS settings, but i think for Ogero this technology will let to set latency for gamers in sub-ms(below 1ms) range.
Sure still international link latency will stay, but after fiber is ready, it will worth trying to tune it as well. With *DSL doesnt worth.
They might charge for that some small fee, as it will decrease whole link capacity, but it will be insignificant amount, comparing with way superior low latency.